As a Infrastructure and Dev Ops Engineer, you’ll design and improve the on-premise and cloud infrastructure necessary to keep our robots and ML models operating at peak performance, and help us establish best practice in terms of testing and CI/CD in the complex and dynamic operational domain of robotics and machine learning.

Description

Overview

In a world increasingly impacted by climate change, pollution, and population growth, conventional production of fresh/fruiting vegetables is unsustainable. Compared to field production, greenhouse hydroponic methods use 90% less water, increase yields, reduce food waste, use fewer pesticides, eliminate fertilizer runoff, and allow crops to be grown locally. However, greenhouse producers make up only a small part of today’s market due to high capital/labor costs and operational complexity. To close this gap, Hippo Harvest uses new methods of hydroponics, robotics, and machine intelligence to re-imagine greenhouses and build the sustainable, economical, and scalable production systems of the future.

As a Infrastructure and Dev Ops Engineer, you’ll design and improve the on-premise and cloud infrastructure necessary to keep our robots and ML models operating at peak performance, and help us establish best practice in terms of testing and CI/CD in the complex and dynamic operational domain of robotics and machine learning.

You Will

Administer and expand our on-premise compute and database infrastructure for maximum availability and robustness; our farm needs to remain fully functional even if we experience week-long internet outages, which are common in our rural environment
Design, implement, and administer our cloud strategy for compute and database replication, enabling ML model training and analytics at scale
Assist in troubleshooting network and Linux system infrastructure, and help design for scaling mobile robotics systems to large areas as we expand our greenhouse footprints.
Bring best-practice to our CI/CD and testing approaches

You Have

A documented history of problem solving and flexibility across infrastructure and dev ops
A strong growth trajectory and desire to expand your skill set as Hippo’s needs evolve
Experience with:
Kubernetes or other cluster administration systems
Bring up and administration of CI/CD systems
Some familiarity with several of:
Hybrid on-premise and cloud systems
Git- and docker-based CI/CD on platforms such as GitHub or GitLab
Linux systems
Network design and debugging
Database administration
Cloud-based ML training

We Offer

An exciting and fun work environment where your contributions will make a true difference
A hybrid environment with 1-2 on-farm days and 3-4 remote days a week
Competitive salary from $160,000 - $210,000 based on level
Full benefits package including six weeks of paid vacation, medical/dental/vision/life insurance, twelve weeks of paid parental leave, 401k, company stock options